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After announcing their separation last year, the stars of HGTV's "Flip or Flop" have had their own world flipped upside down since news broke of their personal turmoil. Fans learned of their marriage trouble after police were called to the couple's house.

While there was no violence and no charges were filed, according to an incident report obtained by E! News, Christina El Moussa "was crying and shaking" when police arrived on the scene. She said her husband Tarek "took a handgun, put it in his backpack and ran outside." A team of police officers and a helicopter searched for him and ordered him to drop the weapon.

After seven years of marriage and two children together, Tarek El Moussa formally filed for divorce in January and now the two are addressing the spectacle surrounding them. One thing remains clear--they are committed to working together for the success of their show and the benefit of their children.

"Our primary focus is and always will be our kids," Christina told Good Morning America's Michael Strahan in a solo interview on Tuesday. "We continue to work together and there's a lot of false stories and a lot of hype, but, in the end, we're just normal, nice people who just want to be the best parents."

Meanwhile, Tarek sat down with Today's Joe Fryer and shared his account of their crumbling marriage. "As time went on, we got distant from each other. There's a lot going on in our lives," he said. "We tried the counseling and it just really wasn't working."

However, he echoed his ex when addressing their children and role as parents. "It doesn't mean we're not going to remain friendly," he added. "The number one goal is to co-parent our children and we have to make sure we remain friendly because we know how important it is for them to have good parents."

"I'm not going to say it's easy. It's like anything. There's challenges in life. We love filming. That's our job. We've been doing it a long time," he told Fryer of shooting Season 7. "We love releasing a good product for our fans and just had to fight through it and do the best we could and I think it turned out great."

While in remission for thyroid and testicular cancer, which he revealed for the first time, El Moussa is looking ahead and hopes to continue doing the show they both love.